April 2010

I was just reading this piece on the “three layers” of the Cloud by David Linthicum — incidentally, David will be keynoting Gluecon. I think what David proposes is a useful framework (useful because it’s not overly nuanced) for thinking…

In case you didn’t notice, Cloud Camp at Glue is now “sold out.” Okay, “sold out” may be the wrong terminology, since Cloud Camp is free — we’re “at capacity” for Cloud Camp at Gluecon. (Important reminder: being registered for…

As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I’m not an engineer. Still, along the way, even the non-engineers like me pick up some tidbits of knowledge. One of the things I learned in my years spent in identity management…

This morning I tweeted: [it’s kinda getting sad, no news can get made, nothing can happen w/out me being able to say, “u know they’ll be at gluecon” ] I admit there’s a fair bit of “talking my own book” going…

The gluecon agenda is rounding the final turn and headed toward the finish line, and I gotta tell ya – I’m pretty happy with how’s it’s turning out. As I scan through it, the breadth *and* depth of technical presentations…

Alright, I admit it! This whole public-private-hybrid cloud debate the clouderati love to go back and forth about just — *yawn* — never really — *yawn* — did much for me. Only you crazy engineering types could get so worked…

Sometimes you just get lucky. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about the “platforms vs. developers” flap that’s happening recently around Twitter. As luck would have it, Ryan Sarver (the head of Twitter’s platform group)…

I added some cool sessions to the agenda this week, so I thought I’d highlight a few here: Scaling the Social Graph in the Cloud — This discussion will review the technical challenges to running queries that traverse 4, 5…